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Definition of Germanize in English:

Germanize

(also Germanise)

verb

[with object]

Make German; cause to adopt German language and customs.

‘the Poles had Germanized their family names’

‘The northern part of present-day Belgium became an overwhelmingly Germanized and Germanic-Frankish-speaking area, whereas in the southern part people continued to be Roman and spoke derivatives of Latin.’

‘They wanted to Germanize German Poles, not enslave them.’

‘Lidice's children were sent to families in Germany and elsewhere to be ‘Germanised’.’

‘‘I have five languages, and I go to an international school,’ she first announced, in faintly Germanised but perfect English.’

‘The same system that kept women from voting for too long also kept the would-be totalitarians from completely East Germanizing the country for 50 years.’

‘He applauded Clough for ‘not Graecizing or Germanizing his English, as most hexameter writers have to do’ but rather ‘Anglicizing the metre’.’

‘Janacek's defiant nationalism was integral to his music and personality: he even refused to ride on Brno's Germanised bus system, preferring to walk.’

‘England will become Germanized or Americanized by this process alone, and the English gentleman will become as extinct as the British yeoman.’

‘Nonetheless, this Germanized version of the game plays quite well, handles six players nicely, and can be finished in as little as an hour.’

‘The Poles who remained behind in the Reich areas came under great pressure to Germanize.’

‘The program, which after some political wrangling allowed the newly Germanized Chrysler to participate, set an aggressive timetable.’

‘The Germanized army and the palace guard were kept out of the way by Hypatius, who had discovered a momentary coincidence of his own interests with Faustinus's.’

‘Although they remained tied to the traditions of their homeland, the further west they moved into Gaul, the less Germanized they became.’